

Pink Floyd were among the first bands to use a dedicated travelling light show in conjunction with their performances.

Just tapes of bird noises in quadraphonic sound, you know, with birds singing, and pheasants taking off in the distance, and swans taking off from water, a tractor driving down one side of the room, and an airplane going over the top, and all these things carrying on, all just from just different sound effects records, you just stick them in and you create a type of mood. We had one half-hour-long tape, which we'd play for the half an hour the audience was coming in just before we started our show, and things like that. Yes, we did all sorts of strange things, you know, for live concerts as well, we used to make up tapes for the audience to come in by.

3.8 1975 North America Tour & Knebworth '75.3.5 Eclipse - A Piece for Assorted Lunatics.
